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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 266e73f | It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man's greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon's desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet w.. | earth moon space | Jon Stewart | |
| 187d9c4 | No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. | John Steinbeck | ||
| cb56a04 | Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable? | Arthur Golden | ||
| 7b46e9c | If you're looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one's ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh) | love | Nora Roberts | |
| c16ab13 | The wounded recognized the wounded. | wounded | Nora Roberts | |
| 57204db | I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 3cde23d | But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays. | Truman Capote | ||
| 0833b17 | You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 91f190a | Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| df00ac7 | At the hill's foot Frodo found Aragorn, standing still and silent as a tree; but in his hand was a small golden bloom of elanor, and a light was in his eyes. He was wrapped in some fair memory: and as Frodo looked at him he knew that he beheld things as they had been in this same place. For the grim years were removed from the face of Aragorn, and he seemed clothed in white, a young lord fall and fair; and he spoke words in the Elvish tongu.. | elves elvish farewell | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0242654 | Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.' It was not the fault of the Dwarves that the friendship waned,' said Gimli. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0c70ec8 | To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the .. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 5a3e1c4 | If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. | David Allen | ||
| b032303 | I can't believe you married a justice nymph and have yet to learn anything from her. There are always three sides to every memory, Z. Yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a8d808a | Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine." "My mom suffers from those a lot, too." "Being around you, I imagine she does." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a13a626 | I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim--so modestly and so humbly--to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world. | arrogance atheism belief fantasy god humility inspirational modesty power religion respect | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 547d435 | I let her through. She checked Derek's pulse and his breathing, saying both seemed okay, then leaned down to his face. "Nothing weird on his breath. Smells . . . like toothpaste." Derek's eyes opened, and the first thing he saw was Tori's face inches from his. He jumped and let out an oath. Simon cracked up. I madly motioned for him to be quiet. "Are you okay?" I asked Derek. "He is now," Simon said. "After Tori jump-started his heart." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 7a237c4 | There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. | Albert Camus | ||
| d13454c | Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate. | Albert Camus | ||
| 4802e68 | But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing. | Albert Camus | ||
| bccaff4 | We are most artistically caged. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 190b670 | This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It's mostly pink. If you're reading this book every night for months, something is not right. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 6254361 | She wanted--what some people want throughout life--a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 5184700 | I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 1801481 | It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way. | war | Cormac McCarthy | |
| bad1e35 | You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it. | inspirational meditative | Annie Dillard | |
| 2d0df6b | To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. | Maya Angelou | ||
| eef3e84 | I finally figured out that I'm solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won't go away. It doesn't matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 4e0f8bd | It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean. | David Levithan | ||
| 8dece53 | If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with . | David Levithan | ||
| 7fc67f5 | It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is to be educated. | Edith Hamilton | ||
| e31ff5f | There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 0ab4450 | Like anybody can tell you, I am not a very nice man. I don't know the word. I have always admired the villain, the outlaw, the son of a bitch. I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions. I also like vile women, drunk cursing bitches with loose stockings and sloppy mascara fa.. | antisocial bukowski outlaw | Charles Bukowski | |
| b55ffd8 | I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place. | Thomas Harris | ||
| 2aad5d3 | True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it. | women | Rosalind Miles | |
| 2e94ad5 | Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" -Frizz mizuno" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 35e9de8 | It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| d016f91 | What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 39188f9 | The mature response to the problem of existence is love. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 7fa3c13 | Congratulations, love. You traded up. Does he treat you well?' 'He's a teddy bear,' I said. Teddy bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal. (Rene and Kate on Jim!) | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 29e1d51 | Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives .. | immigration nigeria race | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 9ca56a3 | To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. | poetry | George Eliot | |
| d00bbd0 | I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly and stopped ever even looking at the boy you were accused of liking. The boys could destroy each other by yodeling, "An-drew lo-oves Jen-nie," and both Andrew and Jennie would flinch and blush. Love is this great thing that most songs and books and poems and lives are all about. So the minute we actually.. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| dcc5569 | Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all. | moving traveling | Jeannette Walls |